How to check if a string exists within an array in PHP?

Question

So I have an array of acceptable animals:

$animals = array('tiger','lion','dog');

How can I see if the animal submitted by the user:

$userSubmittedAnimal = clean($_POST['animal']);

matches one of the 3 acceptable ones?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-17 19:22:09Z

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in_array — Checks if a value exists in an array

$animals = array('tiger','lion','dog');
$userSubmittedAnimal = clean($_POST['animal']);

if (in_array($userSubmittedAnimal, $animals )) {
    echo "It's in the array";
}

edited Nov 17, 2023 at 19:22

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Mohammed Joraid Over a year ago

How about if the user typed: tige ? is there a partial search ?

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